I heard a story on NPR awhile ago on the dangers of the new CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulbs being pushed on consumers lately by big companies like Wal-Mart. This weekend there was an interesting article on Canada’s National Post concerning the cleanup costs if one of these bulbs breaks…
The DEP sent a [...]
April 27, 2007 – 11:38 am
There has been a lot of discussions lately about backup and using online backup services like Mozy.
Unfortunately Mozy isn’t available for Linux (Windows and Mac only).
Today Information Week has an interesting article: Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop comparing the two popular desktops. It’s a good comparison and I’d [...]
April 23, 2007 – 10:13 am
This post isn’t about ants with incontinence issues… I’m going to briefly explain the Ant depend attribute and how it relates to your tasks and targets.
Ant tasks consist of a series of ‘targets’ with each target performing one or more tasks. Usually each target is focused on one thing - initializing parameters, copying files, [...]
I’ve been slowing building an Ant task I use to push my application to our development server.
It does the following:
Creates a ‘temp’ dir on my local drive
Checks out a revision from our SVN repository (I can enter a revision or HEAD via a prompt)
It then ‘cleans up’ the checked out working copy (removes a few [...]
April 17, 2007 – 12:36 pm
This Thursday is shaping up to be a big day for the Linux community. Ubuntu is releasing v7.04 “Feisty Fawn” and I just read that there will be a ‘big’ Gnome announcement as well…
I’ll probably update right away and hopefully nothing major will break
During my last update (6.10) I had a few [...]
April 16, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Two guitar related items:
Air Guitar Nation - this looks hilarious. I need to find out if this is playing anywhere nearby - I dig me some air guitar!
I also noticed that Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) has a solo project out now called The Nightwatchman. It’s acoustic (!) :
Musician and political [...]
This is a great article - what happens when a world famous violinist plays in L’Enfant Plaza in Washington DC during morning rush hour? The Washington Post asked Joshua Bell to bring his Stradivarius and play anonymously for the rush hour crowd.
It’s a fascinating and somewhat sad article about how people are [...]
I was digging around trying to figure out how to join our local TriLUG (Triangle Linux Users Group) and stumbled upon Eric Raymond’s “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way“.
I remember reading this a long time ago and it great to see he’s still updating it… It’s worth a read if you have never read [...]
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